The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Matt Levine navigates rather than pronounces, which is why The Navigator fits. His self-described stance as an opinion columnist without opinions is precisely that, a refusal to impose destinations while finding conceptual routes through finance's weirdest stories.
“That's like what's been said so far, but that doesn't mean they won't. It means that like. This is not a good time to sell the debt. So, like, if the market changes, their minds might change. I don't know.”
“Yeah, right. So you can build more filters and more ways to customize your Twitter experience. And then you can pay a little bit for more pleasant Twitter experience. And Twitter is very valuable because there are a lot of casual users who can see the memes that you tweet and in some low touch way be fans of yours.”
“Maybe that'll work, but like it might be kind of hard to implement. But the other problem is just if you're firing everyone or if you're like sort of like demoralizing everyone, then you lose not only the people blocking Donald Trump, but also the people blocking spam bots and crypto scammers.”
“Yeah, the sort of immediate worries with Elon Musk take over are, you know, if you sort of buy Twitter with the goal of free speech, and then you just sort of like fire the entire content moderation team, and then it's all just, you know, abuse and racism and misinformation, then probably a lot of people are like, I don't want this anymor…”
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